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"Switching to Marius as a protagonist wasn't as difficult as I expected; he's admirable and sympathetic. Plus, it's sweet to briefly glimpse Cossette and Valjean from his point of view, such as when he notices a monogrammed handkerchief left behind from where they sat in the park. It smells so prettily, he's certain it must be Cossette's. Turns out, it's gentle old Valjean's!" — Jul 22, 2026 09:06AM
"Switching to Marius as a protagonist wasn't as difficult as I expected; he's admirable and sympathetic. Plus, it's sweet to briefly glimpse Cossette and Valjean from his point of view, such as when he notices a monogrammed handkerchief left behind from where they sat in the park. It smells so prettily, he's certain it must be Cossette's. Turns out, it's gentle old Valjean's!" — Jul 22, 2026 09:06AM
“It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.”
― The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study
― The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study
“Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?”
― Urien's Voyage
― Urien's Voyage
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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“I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.”
― Early Writing
― Early Writing
“Her laughter was everywhere, and at night her eyes shone in the sky. The air he breathed was Susie; whatever he touched was her too.”
― Unclay
― Unclay
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